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axk

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Email: alexander at kojevnikov dot com

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axk··on Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained
Gerrit is solid: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
axk··on The Crisis in the Skies of San Francisco
https://archive.is/WlT2a
axk··on Google to keep employees home until summer 2021
Similar results at my (reasonably large) company:

* 20% want to go back to the office

* 30% want to WFH forever

* 50% want the flexibility to WFH 2-3 days a week

axk··on EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archive against publishers
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

axk··on Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
It's quite surprising. Quilt is a very common tool, e.g. for Debian developers: https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt

You should probably rename the pip package and the CLI tool to quiltdata to avoid conflicts.

axk··on Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?
Not true. I got a GC while being on an E-3 in the US.
axk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
Thumbtack - San Francisco (H1-B and interns welcome)

Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your kid how to play the piano. We are a two-sided marketplace that connects buyers and sellers in these service industries. We work hard to empower small business owners nationwide to grow their businesses.

Thumbtack's core values are 1) help locally, scale globally, 2) obsess over our customers, and 3) improve relentlessly. We look for people who have raw talent and drive, work well with others, are motivated to improve, and are personable and intellectually curious.

Our engineering team is a lean 14 people, and supports the larger Thumbtack team of 500. We work in a beautiful office in SoMa, eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and provide annual stipends for self-improvement. We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy.

We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise:

  * Front-end
  * Back-end
  * Site reliability / DevOps
  * Analytics and big data
  * Statistics
  * Data science
  * Android
  * iOS
http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering

http://www.fastcompany.com/3030952/whos-next/thumbtack-is-co...

Please contact alex @ thumbtack for more information.

axk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Thumbtack - San Francisco (H1-B and interns welcome)

Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your daughter how to play the piano. We are a two-sided marketplace that connects buyers and sellers in these service industries. We work hard to empower small business owners nationwide to grow their businesses.

Thumbtack's core values are 1) help locally, scale globally, 2) obsess over our customers, and 3) improve relentlessly. We look for people who have raw talent and drive, work well with others, are motivated to improve, and are personable and intellectually curious.

Our engineering team is a lean 12 people, and supports the larger Thumbtack team of 500. We work in a beautiful office in SoMa, eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, read and debate literature at book club, brew beer, and provide annual stipends for self-improvement. We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy.

We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise:

  * Statistics
  * Data science
  * Front-end
  * Back-end
  * Site reliability / DevOps
  * Analytics and big data
  * Android
  * iOS
http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering

http://www.fastcompany.com/3030952/whos-next/thumbtack-is-co...

Please contact alex @ thumbtack for more information.

axk··on Go Hercule
It's not always logic bugs. For example, here's how you would limit your slice to max N elements:

    arr = arr[:N]
...compared how it has to be done to avoid a panic:

    if len(arr) > N {
        arr = arr[:N]
    }
Not a big deal though, just slightly more verbose.
axk··on Go Hercule
It does make perfect sense, just goes against muscle memory from years of Python coding :)
axk··on Go Hercule
The funny thing is that I knew it, but wrote `for v := range array` anyway at least a few times! My point is, it's not very intuitive. Thankfully, the compiler catches that, unless it's `[]int`.
axk··on Go Hercule
It wouldn't be very helpful, the algorithm and the problem are very specific to Thumbtack.

That being said, we plan to extract and free common code as we use Go for more projects. We love free / open source software!

axk··on Go Hercule
It's intentional. The update doesn't have to happen at the same time every week, we just wanted the model to be no more than 1 week old.

`time.Ticker` looks handy, I will definitely use it for another project.

axk··on Smarty: An Autocomplete UI in AngularJS
It's used on http://www.thumbtack.com/
axk··on International Day Against DRM
That's in theory. In practice Amazon either subsidizes or doesn't have much of a mark up on the price of the Kindles; and hopes to make it up by selling DRM products.
axk··on International Day Against DRM
Get a Kindle but never register/activate it. EPUBs can be converted to MOBI with calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/
axk··on IKEA or Death-Metal
19/20, didn't get an American band. Glad to see this here \m/ :)
axk··on A Rust binding of the wxWidgets cross platform toolkit.
How up to date is wxc these days? Last time I checked it was very raw.

Regardless, this is an exciting development. Once it's reasonably stable I will migrate my hobby project (http://spek.cc) to use it!

axk··on Are These The Most Ridiculous/Awesome Startup Perks Ever?
At Thumbtack, we brew our own beer. Currently making a Witbier and a Tripel ;)
axk··on USCIS Reaches 2014 H-1B Cap
Only if you don't intend to leave the country at all. Once you cross the border, even if it's a short weekend trip, you would have to apply for a new E-3 visa again.
axk··on Ask HN: What are the best ways to read HN?
Subscribe to http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ and http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/
axk··on Ask HN: Visiting SF for the first time: Where to stay? What to do? Who to see?
I've asked a similar question a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3308036
axk··on Show HN: WhenEpisode.com (Simple weekend project)
Looks great! A web feed (and/or email notifications) of selected shows would be helpful.

By the way, a similar service for album releases: https://muspy.com/

axk··on The FreeBSD Foundation falls short of its 2012 fundraising goal by 50%
Don't be discouraged by the age of this article, it's still the best answer to the GP's question.
axk··on The usability experts were right: changes we made to increase conversion by 50%
http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/
axk··on Security vulnerability found in Nginx
Both FreeBSD ports have been already updated.
axk··on Less than 7 Hours to go for Google Code Jam 2012
It's only the registration which opens in a few hours, the qualification round is in a month: https://code.google.com/codejam/schedule.html
axk··on The Pirate Bay's statement on PIPA/SOPA
Same goes for the intellectual "property" rights. Mixing together three completely different areas of law (copyright, patents and trademarks) is bad enough; implying they are related to physical property rights is unforgivable: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
axk··on Purely Functional Retrogames
If you like this series of posts, get yourself a copy of The Haskell School of Expression [0]. It covers various multi-media applications of Haskell, including reactive animations.

[0]: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak/SOE/

axk··on FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types
I'm a happy rootbsd customer, their prices are on par with linode.
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